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Corey Bechtold 2

Dropping the limits to 5 on lakes like this would only make those that want to stock their freezers come back the next day or later the same day (double dipping). My guess is that if you are witnessing a hot bite that the same trucks and boats will be back there tomorrow.

If you are concerned I would call TIP and let them know of your concern. They might send someone out there to check.

I definately hear you about the lack of self discipline that some anglers have.

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DTro 3

There's a reason why URL had such a good stretch of crappie fishing, and it really had nothing to do with limits or regs or people having self control.

With all the walleyes gone, the fish could flourish. Now with the walleyes rebounding, the crappies numbers are coming down and stabilizing.

I really don't think a lake could sustain consistant trophy numbers of panfish. Even if it was strictly catch and release. Panfish are low on the food chain, and my thoughts are that predators in the form of other fish are just as big of factor as fisherman.

When you are dealing with fish on the upper end of the food chain, that don't have as many predators. That's when catch and release or selective harvest works much better.

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Northlander 71

I would have no problem with a 5 fish limit on pan fish. I think 10 is too many. 3 guys in a boat can really make a impact on these fish, especially when they are up shallow. 3 guys keeping 30 fish (10 each) a few times a week can really knock down the numbers. Multiply that by however many other guys are out there fishing for them and the numbers can get big in a hurry.

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gorrilla 0

my eyes light up lately when i see special panfish regs since that means to me there might actually be some non-stunted fish in there. Ten crappie fillets(5 medium to large fish) are enough for anyone in my opinion.

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castindad 0

castindad 0

thirty years ago i said sauk lake will never withstand the pan fish pressure yet i still see many people out there with counters with several people in the boat or pontoon. is this an exception to the rule for pan fish reproduction? would like to hear some comments castindad

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Northlander 71

Northlander 71

Back in the early 80's 1 lake up by us had a huge crappie and gil population. Word got out and people from all over the states came up and fished it HARD. Now the crappies are hard to find. The gils have bounced back the past few years and now we have a great population of 8-11" gils. Im hoping the crappies come back just as well soon.

Unless its a really big lake fishing pressure can really take its toll.

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jjohnson5150 4

The DNR called me back today in response to my inquiry. They are aware of the body of water I mentioned and have a few conserns, but overall, they are alright with the preasure. The main reason being that this lake has a fast growth rate & short life span. He said that they could cut back on harvest or have a minimum harvest size, but there would be waste as a lot of the fish would die mainly due to lack of food. They have seen evidence of this body of water going in cycles & eventually getting back to the point it's at right now.

The one thing that blew me away is that he said there may be as much as 300,000 lbs of crappies there. 200 acres & 6 semi loads of crappies! Could I have heard that wrong?

I also asked him if the foul smelling water was normal. He said that there is "blue green algae" in the lake, which may be due to farm run off. He even sent me a pdf file about the nasty stuff. Keep your dogs away everyone!

Holy Crap! I'm not sure I want to ask any more questions.

lol.

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TurnUpTheFishing 5

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I know of a few panfish lakes not too far away that produce/produced lots of 9"+ 'gills and very decent crappies. Ive been keeping my eyes on the DNR surveys for one of the lakes and saw the size quality drop bigtime from 26 fish over 9" down to 2 fish. TWO!

I have no problem keeping fish but practice and preach selective harvest. Though sometimes it seems so useless to throw back 'gills 8.5"+ only to have the next guy keep it to stock his freezer. Atleast I can see Im changing my Dad's view. I see him throwing back those big fish with no hesitation now.

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Carp-fisher 0

This is definitely an interesting subject. My brother is a fisheries biology student at the U and we were talking about this a few weeks ago. Here's an idea:

1. Special regulations during the spawning time for panfish. Maybe catch and release only or a lower fish limit?

This is the time of the year when the really large bull 'gills are most vunerable. I love panfishing and I love eating fish, but I don't like seeing people taking huge bluegills (and crappies) off their nests and into a bucket. Any thoughts?

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Black_Bay 0

This is definitely an interesting subject. My brother is a fisheries biology student at the U and we were talking about this a few weeks ago. Here's an idea:

1. Special regulations during the spawning time for panfish. Maybe catch and release only or a lower fish limit?

This is the time of the year when the really large bull 'gills are most vunerable. I love panfishing and I love eating fish, but I don't like seeing people taking huge bluegills (and crappies) off their nests and into a bucket. Any thoughts?

Actually this has been discussed within the DNR. The issue is that you'd have to close the Bluegill season during May and June and the Crappie season from ice out to June. Remember crappies are in shallow to feed after ice out, not to spawn. Anglers would never go for that though. I definitely think the limits needs to be lowered if we want any kind of qualty panfishing. Occassionally there is a hot lake with big gills but those are few and far bewteen these days. Our panfish populations just can't handle the harvest levels we put on them.

There used to be lakes that had nice panfish in them because they were winterkilling on occasion. These boom and bust fisheries provided great fishing. I wish the DNR would consider shutting off aeration systems when panfish populations get overpopulated.

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Second the guide. Fishing a lake in the north is totally different from fishing Mississippi or lake Zumbro or other lakes in the southern half of the state.
Otherwise you should look at the best place to launch your boat to be close to good fishing. Rainy is a very big lake..
Ask in http://fishingminnesota.com/forums/forum/98-rainy-lake-fishing-reports-hunting-events/
the rainy lake forum.

I saw this on the Wright County website today: http://www.wrightswcd.org/Water_Mana...e_species.htmlThere's a link in Blue on the home page.

Sounds like they are having a meeting about it on AUG 23. From talking to the DNR, I believe they didn't allow the initial dates for this to happen. Mostly because there was really no comment period on it. Sounds like they are gonna have it now. Guess if your against it, now's your chance to speak up. You can also send in written comments. Not sure exactly to who, at least I didn't see that part clearly. Maybe to Alicia O'Hare.

Like others have said, I believe their ultimate goal is to have this implemented county wide at some point. When you look at the committee info, most groups are lake associations. Hopefully it still can be stopped.
Here is the DNR person I called on this, she was helpful: Heidi Wolf - 651-259-5152

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